NCMC Events From Around the State… March 16, 2015

1). NCMC Art Section Nominations Needed!  We are currently seeking nominations for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the NCMC Art Section.  Please feel free to nominate yourself or a colleague for a specific position by emailing Denise Drury Homewood, art section chair, at artsection@ncmuseums.org.

2). Page-Walker in Cary (www.friendsofpagewalker.org) invites you to Preserving America’s Memories: Film, TV and Sound at the Library of Congress on Monday, March 23^rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Cary Theater.  The Packard Campus Audio Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. Paul R. Klamer, Video Lab Supervisor, will share “behind the scenes” information on how these unique American cultural treasures are preserved and restored.  For more information on this free lecture, visit www.friendsofpagewalker.org or call (919) 460-4963.

3). The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org) presents NASCAR, Dirt Track History, NASCAR Racers Roundtable and History Talks all in one day on Saturday, March 21^st! At 10 a.m. NASCAR Hall of Fame historian Buz McKim will discuss the history of NASCAR; at 11 a.m.  Dan Pierce author of “The Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay and Big Bill France” will talk about early dirt track racing and NASCAR; at 12noon Buz McKim will moderate the NASCAR Racers Roundtable featuring 2015 Hall of Fame inductee Rex White; and at 2 p.m. History Talks: Doug McDaniel presents “A Statistical History of the Mount Airy High School Football Program.”  All of these events will be held on the 3rd floor of the museum and are FREE to the public.

4). The High Point Museum Guild (www.highpointmuseum.org) is pleased to have Bernie Mann, owner and publisher of Our State, speak at its March monthly meeting. The meeting will be held Wednesday, March 18^th at 10 a.m. at the High Point Museum. Our State magazine is North Carolina’s premiere travel, history and culture publication. The Museum Guild welcomes new members to join and support the High Point Museum. Annual dues are $25 which helps to fund wonderful programs which are free except for the field trips as well as other Museum projects and exhibits. To learn more about this event, call 885-1859 or visit www.highpointmuseum.org.   

5). Hands On! (www.handsonwnc.org), a Child's Gallery in Hendersonville, invites you to Switcheroo Zoo! on Wednesday, March 18 through Friday, March 20. If you ran the zoo, what kind of animals would you engineer? Create real & imaginary animals in our switcheroo zoo. This self-directed activity is available all day for all ages in our Party Room. This new program is free with $5 admission/free for members and is generously sponsored by Etowah Valley Veterninary Hospital. For additional information about Hands On! educational programs and facility, please visit their website at www.handsonwnc.org or call 828-697-8333.

6). The Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is pleased to present its latest exhibit, Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum.  Inside or outside his photo studio, Mangum created an atmosphere –respectful and often playful – in which hundreds of men, women and children genuinely revealed themselves. Keep All You Wish features a selection of images of early 20th century Southern society that show personalities as immediate as if they were taken yesterday. Although the early 20th century American South in which he worked was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality – between black and white, men and women, rich and poor – Mangum portrayed all of his sitters with candor, humor and spirit. Above all, he showed them as individuals. Each client appears as valuable as the next, no story less significant. Keep All You Wish will be on display until July 12^th.

7). Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University (http://moa.wfu.edu) invites the public to the lecture Inscribing the Present:  The Semiotic Reoccupation of Cherokee Country on Wednesday, March 18^th  at 7:00 p.m.  Drawing on collaborative work with Tom Belt and Hartwell Francis of Western Carolina University's Cherokee Language Program, Dr. Margaret Bender, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University, will discuss several ways in which contemporary assertions of Cherokee culture--including the promotion of traditional language-based pregnancy and birthing practices, the reclamation of sacred and historic sites along the Tuckaseegee River, tattooing, and the defiance of an attempt by Facebook to prohibit use of the Cherokee syllabary--are physically and visually remaking Cherokee bodies and Cherokee landscape.  Admission is free.

8). North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (www.naturalsciences.org) invites you to visit them on Wednesday, March 18^th at 7 p.m., for a special presentation by Paul Bogard titled “The End of Night.” Bogard seeks to restore awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and show how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art. This special program will be held in the main auditorium and is free to the public.

9). SECCA (www.secca.org) invites you to the 2015 Connectivity Gala on Friday, March 20^th at 6:00 p.m.  You won't want to miss the best event in town! Join SECCA for an inspiring evening with southern, national, and international artists that imagine and build new forms of collectivity and connectivity. This lively event will include hors d’oeuvres and a sit down dinner, along with entertainment by UNCSA School of Dance. Buy your tickets now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secca-connectivity-gala-tickets-15733498317.

10). Museum of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com) and Serenity Arts Studio invites you to Paint and Cookie:  Sunny Sky and Colorful Kite on Friday, March 20^th from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Museum of the Albemarle.  The Museum and Serenity Studio Arts will join forces in creating a mixed-media canvas for April’s First Friday Art Walk.    School age participants will paint a kite.  The masterpieces created by participants during the workshop will be highlighted at Serenity Studio Arts, 601 East Main Street, on Friday, April 3, 2015 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at First Friday Art Walk.  Limited space and supply fee. For More Information Call 252-335-1453.